Amid fights over conservation funding, an agreement is reached for businesses to pay for profiting from digital genetic ...

Perhaps no coffee production would be better for biodiversity in these landscapes, but given that a lot of people really like ...

André Hesselbäck uses his photographic memory and higher-education expertise to sniff out rampant credential fraud and degree mills.

Ornithologist Ana Gonzalez studies migration patterns and works with local scientists to protect threatened birds.

For the first time, chemists have made a class of molecules previously thought too unstable to exist, and used them to ...

DNA samples from one of the world’s largest and oldest plants — a quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) in Utah called ...

Comparison of the hairless animals’ genomes with those of several other mammals shows low activity of certain sequences.

Engineers have nearly finished building the central detector of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) in China ...

Climate change increases sea levels through two main effects: melting ice increases the amount of water in the world’s oceans, and seawater expands as it absorbs excess heat trapped by greenhouse-gas ...

Viruses known as bacteriophages are difficult to study, but they are beginning to give up their secrets. It is common ...

It’s tough news to hear on Halloween: a sugary diet in the first two years of life is linked to a higher risk of diabetes and ...

People with obesity are ten times more likely to develop diabetes compared to lean people. Researchers trying to understand why have found an answer in the same system that drives the body’s ...